Editing Eton College (section)

==== House structure ====
[[File:MK17840 Eton College.jpg|thumb|The Porter's Lodge of Eton College]]
In addition to the housemaster, each house has two house captains, two house captains of games and a house captain of arts. All house positions are entitled to "Stick-Ups" (a white bow tie and winged collar). Some houses may have more house captains than the standard rule. House prefects were once elected from the oldest year, but this no longer happens. The old term "Library" survives in the name of the room set aside for the oldest year's use, where boys have their own kitchen and living space. Similarly, boys in their penultimate year have a room known as "Debate".

There are entire house gatherings every evening, usually around 8:05–8:30&nbsp;p.m. These are known as "Prayers", due to their original nature. The house master and boys have an opportunity to make announcements, and sometimes the boys provide light entertainment. For much of Eton's history, junior boys had to act as "fags", or servants, to older boys. Their duties included cleaning, cooking, and running errands. A Library member was entitled to yell at any time and without notice, "Boy, Up!" or "Boy, Queue!", and all first-year boys had to come running. The last boy to arrive was given the task. These practices, known as [[fagging]], were partially phased out of most houses in the 1970s. Captains of house and games still sometimes give tasks to first-year boys, such as collecting the mail from the school office.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Education: Eton Bids Farewell to Fagging |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,951513,00.html |access-date=24 February 2022 |magazine=Time |date=26 May 1980 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201182756/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,951513,00.html |archive-date=1 December 2021}}</ref>

There are many inter-house competitions, mostly in sports but also in academics, drama and music.